Comments on: Blawg Review #199

By: The Sands Of Iwo Jima | Popehat

The Sands Of Iwo Jima | Popehat — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:48:52 +0000

[...] to blog. We’ve been fortunate enough to have our efforts mentioned among some of the very best, for which we’re deeply [...]

By: Newswire #4 22nd February 2009 « Insitelaw magazine

Newswire #4 22nd February 2009 « Insitelaw magazine — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:29:47 +0000

[...] Bearwatch: Where is Paul Moore’s bonus? Paul Moore, former head of risk management at HBOS (which, by the way, has just cratered its new owner, Lloyds Bank), was sacked in 2005 by Sir James Crosby, allegedly for warning about the bank’s excessive lending.More… Best Crime Blawg Review Ed of Blawg Review writes: Criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett hosts Blawg Review #199 at Defending People, the winner of the ABA Journal Blawg 100 award for best crime law blog in 2008. I said it on Twitter, and I’ll say it again here, “The next time somebody asks me how to write a great Blawg Review, I swear I’m just going to tell ‘em where to go.” Go see Mark Bennett’s Blawg Review #199. [...]

By: The Underblawger

The Underblawger — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:08:53 +0000

A wonderful blawg review. I am honored to appear in it. Thank you.

By: CPSIA chronicles, February 19

CPSIA chronicles, February 19 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:39:18 +0000

[...] Timber, 5 Kids and a Dog, Mark Bennett’s noteworthy posts at Defending People reprised at Blawg Review #199, Carter Wood at NAM ShopFloor and again, David Foster at Chicago Boyz, Der Schweizer Narr (from [...]

By: CPSIA and vintage books

CPSIA and vintage books — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:57:42 +0000

[...] Reactions from Houston criminal defense blogger Mark Bennett at Defending People and again at Blawg Review #199, Carter Wood at NAM ShopFloor and again, David Foster at Chicago Boyz, Der Schweizer Narr (from [...]

By: Surveillance will cost more than £34 billion say Convention on Modern Liberty « Insitelaw magazine

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:42:37 +0000

By: S.O.

S.O. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:20:47 +0000

Nvm, Found the solution on CNN. Seems that no one will be charged. Don’t you hate it when you have a nationally known star in one of your busts.. sheesh… You just can’t find good corruption anymore.

By: S.O.

S.O. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:43:19 +0000

So what was the outcome on this? They arrested 7 right? But did not arrest the one person who actually has a picture of himself smoking some substance. Political? maybe.

By: Shopfloor » Blog Archive » CPSIA Update: Destruction Continues; Congress Back Home

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:56:29 +0000

[...] The article I wrote for City Journal Thursday on the legal fate of pre-1985 children’s books has been drawing all sorts of attention, and all I can acknowledge are a few of the highlights. Education expert Jay Greene and Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom are among those put in mind of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. “Of all the risks facing American children, old books must rank very, very low,” writes leading education blogger Joanne Jacobs. Will Benton: “Every time I learn something new about the CPSIA, I get more enraged.” Illinois blogger T. Varner notices an ad for a local thrift store saying it would no longer accept donations of a “very long list” of items including “children’s books published before 1985?; only later does it click. Hector Owen: “This is what happens when Congress passes these bloated bills that nobody reads, and the President signs them, and then we start to find out what was in there. Oh dear, what did they just do last week?” JDub at Ace of Spades: “Overlawyered has pretty much flooded the zone on this — I don’t want to simply link all of the things he’s got, so give him a look. … Go. Read. Be angry.” And Mark Bennett, of criminal law blog Defending People, gives it a mention in the course of hosting Blawg Review no. 199. [...]

By: Charon QC

Charon QC — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:41:06 +0000

Excellent Blawg Review… res ipsa loquitur.